The stories of ordinary people in the early years of the neighborhood are part of the reason I continue to research–untold, evocative, scrappy, and inspiring by turns.
Posts about people who lived here:
- A Bridge-Builder and Muni Driver Raises a Family on Congo
- The Italian Craftsman Who Signed His Cabinets
- A Companion to Hollywood Starlets Settles Down on Baden Street
- A Swedish Builder Rebuilds a Family
- Sunnyside History in Photos: People
- Gilbert Plov, Little-Box Builder
- Immigrant Dreams and Long Hours: The Delicatessen at Monterey and Edna
- Families on the edge of the forest: Mangels Avenue in the 1910s and 1920s
- The love story of William and Temperance Merralls
- The Quest for Sunnyside Hall — early activists in the district
- 1980s: O’Donoghue’s, an Irish pub on Monterey
- George R Reilly and the first LGBT legal victory in US history
- The Sunnyside Coalyard and the Williams Family of Joost Avenue
- Gloomy Gus Goes to War: Stan Staub, Cub Reporter and WWII Soldier
- Home Invasion at the Wilson Dairy on Gennessee Street
- W.A. Merralls: Inventor and Entrepreneur of Sunnyside
- Growing Up on Congo Street in the 1920s
- The Ballad of Ellen Furey
- The Terror of Sunnyside
- The Lohbrunners Come to Sunnyside
- Good Deeds and Bad: the House at 503 Edna Street
- Frenchie’s, a local shop at Hearst and Congo
- A Savior on a Rocky Knoll
- Brawl at Schultz’s Saloon
Posts about people elsewhere:
- Laws, Lies, and Lace Frills: San Francisco’s First Woman Prosecutor (San Francisco)
- “Rosie, the Girl from Paris”: How a Barbary Coast Madam retired to Chenery Street (Glen Park)
- The Mad Hatter of Tiffany Avenue (Mission District)
By name:
- Barrett, John carpenter, early activist
- Cleary, Benjamin Franklin (1872 – 1940) Guard at the County Jail
- Code, Emma Sophia (1842 – 1915) Forty-Niner; second principal of Sunnyside School
- Ekenberg, Hugo Sigfrid (1883 – 1981) lived 400 Joost; found attempted suicide.
- Ephraim, Janette E. (1858 – 1940) Third principal, Sunnyside School, 1910-1927
- Ewell, Augustus H. (1856 – 1911) Engineer, local activist.
- Furey, Ellen (1844 – 1896) the brave old dairy woman hit by Southern Pacific train.
- Hanlen, Emily Helen Wilson (1886 SF CA–1959 San Francisco CA)
- Johnson, John Albert (1845 – 1919) Marble cutter, community activist. Also here.
- Johnson, Mary A. (1947 – 1901) Mother of five, victim of habeas-corpus violation.
- Lohbrunner, Max L. (1860 – 1930) Gold miner and father of Lee and Adolph.
- Lohbrunner, Elizabeth (1872 – 1943)
- Lohbrunner, Lee Louis (1889 – 1976) 400 Joost Ave.
- Lohbrunner, Mary (1885 – 1961) 400 Joost Ave.
- Lohbrunnner, Adolph (1890 – 1981) 412 Joost Ave.
- Lohbrunner, Elsie Goessel (1901 – 1951) 412 Joost Ave.
- Merralls, Lizzie A. (1849 – 1908) helped build Sunnyside Conservatory. 258 Sunnyside Ave.
- Merralls, Temperance Laura Neely Clark (1965 – 1930) Ran ‘Sunnyside Laboratories’ at 258 Sunnyside Ave (supposedly). Second wife of W.A. Merralls.
- Merralls, William Augustus (1952 – 1914) Inventor and entrepreneur; helped build Sunnyside Conservatory. 258 Sunnyside Ave.
- Molinari, Joseph (1892 – 1974) Son of Giovanni; longtime Sunnyside resident.
- Navas, Helena Hotchick (1881 – 1950) Shop-keeper, mother of eight.
- Navas, Ruben Rodriguez (1858 – 1946) Shop keeper, father of eight.
- Paczoch, Carl (1857 – 1916) Early Sunnyside resident, factory laborer, father of six.
- Riordan, Catherine F. (1874 – 1933) Sunnyside School’s first principal
- Schnee, Gustave (1869 – >1935) Contractor, realtor, early activist
- Schultz, Paul, Saloon keeper, 1897
- Smart, George Clement (1843 – 1913) Proprietor of New York Dairy, on San Jose Ave nr Sunnyside. Defendant in milk-adulteration trial.
- Tiegel, Herman (1853 – 1926) The Terror of Sunnyside.
- Williams, Sephaniah (1858 WI – 1932 SF)
- Wilson, Carolina Pedersen (1849 Sweden–1914 San Francisco CA)
- Wilson, John Augustus (1845 Sweden–1919 San Francisco CA)
- Wilson, John Edward (1876 CA–1948 CA)
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